Thread regarding Cisco Systems Inc. layoffs

Agree, you can’t trust that SED. It is in your best interest to find a role where he is not in your leadership chain.

Do not trust that SED. He has not done one thing for the TSAs. He does not know what our job is. He hires is own TSA from direct side who is nothing more than his admin while the rest of us are actually working. He hires our director in GES that came from direct side. He would not consider anyone from GSSO.

Cisco su-ks, not sure why you guys haven’t gotten the memo yet but you should leave.

The pay is mediocre at best
The fear of layoff is constant
Your skillset has limited applicability outside of Cisco
Your exec team is a bunch of psychopaths who assume just enough of you a d-mb enough to stay with the company.

Remember this classic line “no inflation raises because you wouldn’t want to give it back if we had a deflationary period”. Sh-t, how fu---d in the head do you have to be to stay at a company with that mentality?

Anyway, good luck, god bless. But do yourself a favor and get the fu-k out.

@nts+1nycw4UH the problem is the TSAs aren’t technical. They use marketing speak. If they were any good they would have left for better products and pay long before C2E, as you did. Who with technical security chops would want to work at Cisco?

Your GSSO Americas SED ran off excellent TSAs due to his push for the disastrous C2E and Agile TSA initiatives all in the name of appeasing EK who helped him get the role. Not sure who else was in the running but anyone would have been better. Then he lied about whether or not he was pushing C2E and Agile TSA when the new regime came in. The field knows that and has no trust and respect for him. When I left the morale of the TSAs was at its lowest due to his not listening to the field. E&T are good people so give them time. They will also eventually see thru the incompetence and hire someone that is capable of being the GSSO Americas SED and more importantly earn the trust of the TSAs and lead them. Best to all of you as I still have many friends there.

Well if it makes you feel any better they’re firing direct/portfolio AMs and SAs too. Now it’s up to the partners. Ouch.

Here’s the thing - everything you describe is fundamentally because of the product being bad. That needs to be fixed first, but it won’t ever be. As for security sales - the portfolio is small, it’s not too much to ask for a single person to cover it all. Competitors don’t have hyperspecialists for every time little product. We sell security to make the stockholders think we’re relevant. It’s a tiny business, we don’t really care about it.